Show producer and designer Bill Moore was born in Gateshead, England in 1926. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1950s in order to make theatrical productions. Moore, who was trained as a dancer, worked with his partner George Arnold to produce shows in Las Vegas, Reno, and Laughlin, Nevada, and in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He became known for flashy costumes and extravagant ice shows.

In the mid-1980s, Gabriel E. Garcia (b 1976) was a grade schooler when his family relocated to Las Vegas from southern California. As so many others, his parents embraced the construction boom as harbinger of work opportunity. For young Gabe, it was all about going to school and making new friends. Within a couple of years, he was experiencing a Sixth Grade Center, part of Clark County School District’s plan to desegregate local schools. For his situation, riding the bus resulted in fewer hours that his parents worried about his wellbeing.

C. C. (Clio Cline) Mobley was born in Greensberg, Indiana on February 9, 1888 to Lyman Mobley and

Nancy Doggett. Mobley married Bertha Pearl Dickey in 1903, and the new family moved soon after to

Riverside, California. Mobley's first daughter, Mary Miriam, was born in California in 1908. In 1911

Mobley moved his wife and family to the land in Las Vegas, Nevada that contained the Old Las Vegas

Mormon Fort and first swimming pool in Las Vegas. The family operated a dairy farm on the property,

"Interviewed by Stefani Evans. Arriving in Las Vegas in 2015 directly from her hometown in Cebu Province, Philippines, Lucela M. Wattin was struck by the dry climate, "like an oven!" But she immediately felt at home in her apartment near Spring Mountain Road and Chinatown, because she could buy familiar food items, and because her new next door neighbor also came from Cebu Province.